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University of Rochester · Anthropology

23.1% of University of Rochester's Anthropology course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Anthropology departments, it is 10.4%.

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University of Rochester: 23.1% Anthropology at all 100 schools: 10.4% each other school in the comparison

Where Anthropology courses fall

0%Far left92–100

50%Left75–91

25%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

25%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

4 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

ANTH 281 · Flights to Freedom: Maroons, Marronage, and the Making of the Americas88

Anthropology

What did it mean to free yourself from enslavement in different parts of the Americas? What constitutes success? How does agency, resistance, and complicity emerge in the transition from unfreedom to freedom? What are the legacies of such…

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ANTH 231 · Il(legal) Anthropology75

Anthropology

This course uses anthropological approaches to explore the sociopolitical construction of "the law" in the contemporary world. We will examine how the state's power and regulatory practices constitute contingent domains of il/legality and…

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ANTH 229 · Linguistic Anthropology63

Anthropology

In this introduction to linguistic anthropology, we will take as our starting point the idea that language does not merely describe the world; rather, linguistic practices play a key role in constituting social relations and cultural…

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Furthest-right subjects

ANTH 313 · Advanced Topic Seminar: Religious Nationalism10

Anthropology

Over the past forty years, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim forms of nationalism have arisen that seek to exclude nonbelievers from full participation in political life. We will discuss key theoretical texts on the…

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Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
University of Rochester · Anthropology	bias_left_share	23.1	—	13	—
Anthropology	bias_left_share	10.4	9.8 – 11.1	9,234	—

Formula: 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval: Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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